2048 (Read 1292 times)

Not sure how popular this little game has become in the rest of the world, but it has become the newest fad in Europe

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2048 is a single-player online and mobile game created in March 2014 by Italian 19-year-old Gabriele Cirulli, in which the objective is to slide tiles on a grid to combine them and create a tile with the number 2048. It is a computer variant of the sliding block puzzle and is very similar to the Threes! app released in February 2014. The game was created as a test to see if he could program a game from scratch, and the surge in popularity (over 4 million visitors in less than a week) was completely unexpected.In fact, it's been called "the most addictive thing" on the internet and that it's "almost like Candy Crush for math nerds." The fact that the game runs on open-source code has led to many additions and variants, including a score leaderboard and improved touchscreen playability.

Supposedly, less than 1% of players manage to get the 2048 tile. Give it a go!